Information Literacy Guide for NorQuest Faculty: Home

Welcome!

The Information Literacy Guide for Faculty was created to raise awareness about the role of information literacy in student learning, and to assist instructors with integrating curriculum to address students' varying information literacy skill levels and needs.

This guide includes:

Information about library and information literacy instruction provided by librarians at NorQuest

Tools and resources created by NorQuest Library and other institutions addressing students' research and information skills

Tips and examples of assignments that develop students' research and information skills

About Information Literacy

Information Literacy is a set of abilities that enable individuals to evaluate and choose information critically from a range of sources, and use information effectively and ethically. In today's world these skills are more essential than ever, and will prove invaluable to NorQuest students as they search for jobs and begin new careers.

"It empowers people in all walks of life to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, occupational, and educational goals. It is a basic human right in a digital world and promotes social inclusion of all nations" (UNESCO, 2005).

"...the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning" (ACRL, 2015).